Diversification of synaptic strength: Presynaptic elements

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 497-516

  Atwood, Harold L ^a   Karunanithi, Shanker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0036633367     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn876     Document Type: Review

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